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Thursday, June 17 - Tutorials 9.15 - 10.00 Session T-1: Introduction 9.15: Conference opening Conference Chairman and AES President 9.30: Metadata, Identities, and Handling Strategies Chris Chambers BBC R&D, Tadworth, Surrey, UK 10.00 - 11.30 Session T-2: File basics 10.00: Introduction to MXF and AAF Philip DeNier BBC R&D, Tadworth, Surrey, UK 10.30: XML Primer Claude Seyrat 11.00: Keeping it Simple: BWF and AES31 John Emmett Broadcast Project Research Ltd., Teddington, Middlesex, UK 12.00 - 13.30 Session T-3: Practical schemes 12.00: The Role of Registries Phillipa Morell BOSS Federation, London, UK 12.30: Sound Effect Taxonomy Management in Production Environments Pedro Cano, Markus Koppenberger, Perfecto Herrera, Oscar Celma Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain 13.00: Dublin Core R. Wright BBC 14.30 - 17.30 MPEG7 workshop Coordinator: G. Peeters IRCAM, Paris, France (in association with SAA TC) Managing Large Sound Databases Using MPEG Max Jacob IRCAM, Paris, France Integrating Low-Level Metadata in Multimedia Database Management Systems Michael Casey City University, London, UK Tools for Content-Based Retrieval and Transformation of Audio Using MPEG-7: The SPOff and the MDTools Emilia G�mez, Oscar Celma, Emilia G�mez, Fabien Gouyon, Perfecto Herrera, Jordi Janer, David Garc�a University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain Using MPEG-7 Audio Low Level Scalability: A Guided Tour J�rgen Herre, Eric Allamanche Fraunhofer IIS, Ilmenau, Germany

Friday, June 18 - Conference day 1 9.30 - 10.30 Session CD-1: Frameworks 9.30: Data Model for Audio/Video Production A. Ebner IRT, Munich, Germany 10.00: P-META: Program Data Exchange in Practice Wes Curtis & Alison McCarthy BBC Television, London, UK 10.30 - 11.15 Session CD-2: Posters, part 1 Low Complexity Musical Meter Estimation from Polyphonic Music Christian Uhle1, Jan Rohden1, Markus Cremer1, J�rgen Herre2 1Fraunhofer AEMT, Erlangen, Germany 2Fraunhofer IIS, Ilmenau, Germany Percussion-Related Semantic Descriptors of Music Audio Files Perfecto Herrera1, Vegard Sandvold2, Fabien Gouyon1 1Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain 2University of Oslo, Oslo, Sweden Tonal Description of Polyphonic Audio for Music Content Processing Emilia G�mez, Perfecto Herrera Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain Phone-Based Spoken Document Retrieval in Conformance with the MPEG-7 Standard Nicolas Moreau, Hyoung-Gook Kim, Thomas Sikora Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany Efficient Musical Instrument Recognition On Solo Performance Music Using Basic Features Slim Essid, Ga�l Richard, Bertrand David GET-T�l�com Paris (ENST), Paris, France 11.15 - 12.45 Session CD-3: Toolkits 11.15: Digital Media Project R. Nicol BT, Ipswich, UK 11.45: MPEG 21: What and Why Jan Bormans1 and Kate Grant2 1IMEC, Leuven, Belgium 2Nine Tiles, Cambridge, UK 12.15: A 3-D Audio Scene Description Scheme Based on XML Guillaume Potard, Ian Burnett University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia 13.45 - 15.15 Session CD-4: Feature extraction, session A 13.45: A System for Harmonic Analysis of Polyphonic Music Claas Derboven, Markus Cremer Fraunhofer IIS AEMT, Ilmenau, Germany 14.15: Robust Identification of Time-Scaled Audio Rolf Bardeli, Frank Kurth University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany 14:45: Computing Structural Descriptions of Music through the Identification of Representative Excerpts from Audio Files Bee Suan Ong, Perfecto Herrera Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain 15.15 - 16.00 Session CD-5: Posters, part 2 Toward Describing Perceived Complexity of Songs: Computational Methods and Implementation Sebastian Streich, Perfecto Herrera Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain How Efficient Is MPEG-7 for General Sound Recognition? Hyoung-Gook Kim, Juan Jos� Burred, Thomas Sikora Technical University Berlin, Berlin, Germany Automatic Optimization of a Musical Similarity Metric Using Similarity Pairs Thorsten Kastner, Eric Allamanche, Oliver Hellmuth, Christian Ertel, Marion Schalek, J�rgen Herre Fraunhofer IIS, Ilmenau, Germany Automatic Extraction of MPEG-7 Metadata for Audio Using the Media Asset Management System iFinder Jobst L�ffler, Joachim K�hler Fraunhofer IMK, Sankt Augustin, Germany An Opera Information System Based on MPEG-7 Oscar Celma Herrada, Enric Mieza Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain 16.00 - 17.30 Session CD 6: Feature extraction, session B 16.00: Drum Pattern Based Genre Classification from Popular Music Christian Uhle, Christian Dittmar Fraunhofer AEMT, Ilmenau, Germany 16.30: Assessing the Relevance of Rhythmic Descriptors in a Musical Genre Classification Task Fabien Gouyon1, Simon Dixon2, Elias Pampalk2, Gerhard Widmer2 1Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain 2Austrian Research Institute for AI, Vienna, Austria 17.00: Music Genre Estimation from Low Level Audio Features Oliver Hellmuth, Eric Allamanche, Thorsten Kastner, Ralf Wistorf, Nicolas Lefebvre, J�rgen Herre Fraunhofer IIS, Ilmenau, Germany

Saturday, June 19 - Conference day 2 9.30 - 10.30 Session CD-7: Broadcast implementations, session A 9.30: Audio Metadata in Radio Broadcasting Shigeru Aoki1, Masahito Kawamori2 1TokyoFM Broadcasting, Tokyo, Japan 2NTT, Tokyo, Japan 10.00: Integrated Metadata in the Broadcast Environment Joe Bull1, Kai-Uwe Kaup2 1SADiE UK, Cambridgeshire, UK 2VCS Aktiengesellschaft, Bochum, Germany 11.00 - 12.00 Session CD-8: Broadcast implementations, session B 11.00: Broadcast Wave and AES Audio in MXF Bruce Devlin Snell & Wilcox 11.30: The Advanced Authoring Format and its Relevance to the Exchange of Audio Editing Decisions David McLeish1, Phil Tudor2 1SADiE, Cambridgeshire, UK 2BBC R&D, Tadworth, Surrey, UK 13.00 - 14.30 Session CD-9: Libraries and archives 13.00: Development of a Digital Preservation Program at the Library of Congress Carl Fleischhauer, Samuel Brylawski Library of Congress, Washington, DC, USA 13.30: Audio Metadata Used in the Radio Nacional de Espa�a Sound Archive Project Miguel Rodeno1, Jesus Nicolas2, Isabel Diaz2 1Alcala University, Madrid, Spain 2Radio Nacional de Espa�a, Madrid, Spain 14.30: Integration of Audio Computer Systems and Archives Via the SAM/EBU Dublin Core Standard,Tech.doc 3293 Lars Jonsson1, Gunnar Dahl2 1Swedish Radio 2KSAD, Norsk Rikskringkasting, Oslo, Sweden 15.00 - 16.30 Session CD-10: Delivery of audio 15.00: Watermarking and Copy Protection by Information Hiding in Soundtracks Tim Jackson, Keith Yates, Francis Li Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK 15.30: Metadata Requirements for Enabling the On-line Music Industry�s New Business Models and Pricing Structures Nicolas Sincaglia MusicNow Inc., Chicago, IL, USA 16.00: Audio Meta Data Generation for the Continuous Media Web Claudia Schremmer1, Steve Cassidy2, Silvia Pfeiffer1 1CSIRO, Epping, NSW, Australia 2Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia